PIA-PR wants to publicly recognize each
person whose leadership contributed to PIA-PR 2009 achievements: Thank you
all!
PIA-PR 2009 Board of Directors: PIA-PR Chairperson
and Merck Vice President PR Operations Daneris Fernández; PIA-PR
Vice Chairperson and Johnson & Johnson General Manager Eric
Álvarez; PIA-PR Secretary-Treasurer and AMGEN Vice
President PR Operations Emilio Rivera; Schering Plough General
Manager Miguel Ribas; Novo Nordisk District Business Manager María
Laforet, Johnson & Johnson General Manager Iván Cartagena;
Pfizer Site Leader Puerto Rico Operations Iván Román; Wyeth General
Manager Yvonne McBurney; Wyeth Consumer Healthcare (OTC) General
Manager Alberto Fernández; PIA-PR Legal Counsel and FiddlerGonzález&Rodríguez Partner Eduardo Negrón and PIA-PR
Executive Vice President Agustín Márquez Veglio
PIA-PR Committees' Chairpersons: Commercial
Group – Johnson & Johnson General Manager Eric
Álvarez; Communications Group – AMGEN Corporate
Communications Senior Manager Miguel Pereira; Environmental, Health
& Safety – Johnson &
Johnson Environmental Health & Safety Director Juliemar Vargas; Executive
Committee – Merck Vice
President Puerto Rico Operations Daneris Fernández; Finance – Pfizer Finance Director Enrique Alejandro;
Human
Resources – Merck Human Resources
Director Anton Roure; Managed Care – Managed Care Manager Orlando Nieves; Manufacturing
Group (Pharmaceutical Cluster) – Johnson & Johnson General Manager Iván
Cartagena; Medical – Lilly Medical Director
Amarilys Silva; Over-the-Counter (OTC) – Wyeth Consumer Healthcare General
Manager Alberto Fernández; Purchasing – Merck Purchasing
Manager Herminio Bosques; Quality Assurance – Pfizer Quality Operations Director Vilma Cabello; Security – Lilly Security Manager Richard Hawkins; Technology
– Pfizer Puerto Rico New Processes & Technology
Director/Team Leader Sigfrido García
PIA-PR Ad-hoc Committees' Chairpersons: Annual
Meeting – Johnson & Johnson General Manager Eric Álvarez;
Energy – AMGEN Engineering
Director Félix Amador; Commercial
Survey – Pfizer General Manager Miguel Vázquez;
Web Page – AMGEN Information Systems Director Justo
Moreno; Swine Flu – Merck Epidemiologist
Juan C. Orengo
New Model Team: Tere Colón (Lilly), Ramón Sepúlveda
(Procter & Gamble)
PIA-PR Staff: PIA-PR Accountant Walmy Rivera, CPA;
and PIA-PR Executive Assistant Nilda Jordán
PIA-PR Consultants: External Auditors Torres Llompart Inc.; Meeting Planner
Nilda Lamboy; Web Page Consultant Veronique Descombes; and Communications
Consultant Gisela Fournier
Annual Meeting Contributors: PIA-PR
wants to publicly recognize those companies that have
contributed, through their participation, to the quality of this year's Annual
Convention; these companies are Medical Card System (MCS), Triple-S, Casa Grande,
Ford Motor Company, Del Valle Brands, University of New
Orleans and SKA Media Fax
Nonprofit Organizations: PIA-PR
also invited the following four nonprofit organizations to participate in
the convention: University of Puerto Rico Pediatric Hospital Oncology
Foundation and the Fondo de Servicio - Enfermedades Catastróficas, the Puerto Rico
catastrophic illnesses' service fund
Annual
Meeting Speakers: PIA-PR was privileged to count on experienced corporations of excellent
caliber and their proficient management teams for the quality information
shared at our 20th annual meeting. These outstanding guest speakers were
IMS HEALTH Corporate Director Diana Conmy, who addressed Pharmaceutical
Worldwide and Local Trends; IMS HEALTH
External
Affairs Vice President Randy Frankel, who addressed Health Reform: an Emerging
Contract; PhRMA Senior Vice President Government & Public Affairs Christopher Badgley, who addressed Fostering
Medical Innovation and Update on US Health Reform; and,
Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute President Thomas Kowalski
who addressed Texas Emerging Technology Funds - from Strategies to
Implementation by Clusters.
Group Sessions
Chairpersons:
s Commercial Cluster - Johnson & Johnson General
Manager Eric Álvarez
s Pharmaceutical Cluster -
Janssen General Manager Iván Cartagena
s Biotechnology Cluster - INDUNIV Executive Director Iván Lugo
s R&D Cluster - Pfizer Science & Technology
Director Sigfrido García
Annual Meeting Chairperson: Johnson
&Johnson General Manager
Eric Álvarez
INDUNIV: Executive
Director Iván Lugo also collaborated in the PIA-PR Annual Meeting.
